A crowd of people with umbrellas filled the streets of Tokyo's Shibuya district in the drizzling rain Friday as police directed them through microphones to avoid overcrowding during Halloween, though ...

China's Xi Jinping took center stage at an annual gathering of Pacific Rim leaders in South Korea on Friday, and will hold talks with his Japanese, Canadian and Thai counterparts after securing a ...

Kim Namjoon scored in the top 1% of the nation in the university entrance examinations. He has a MBA. He continues to educate ...

President Donald Trump isn't curtailing travel. He's not avoiding golf or making do with a skeleton staff in the West Wing. Even hamburgers served at the White House aren't from McDonalds, this time.

The Chiba District Court has sentenced a 48-year-old man to 19 years in prison for killing a 56-year-old female hotel employee at a hotel in Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture, last year. According to ...

The Japan Equestrian Archery Association will hold an exhibition of horseback archery, known as yabusame, at Meiji Jingu in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, on Monday November 3. First held in 1932, the event ...

Amazon posted higher fiscal third quarter profit and sales compared with a year ago, as the online giant kept attracting shoppers looking for good prices while inflation resurges. The results ...

President Donald Trump's administration held a Republicans-only briefing about U.S. strikes on alleged drug vessels near Venezuela, in what one senior Democrat on Thursday called a dangerous trend of ...

A woman in her 80s in Yonezawa City, Yamagata City, fell victim to a fraud after she gave 7 million yen in cash to someone she believed had been sent by her grandson, following an emergency call. The ...

Apple's iPhone sales growth decelerated during its summertime quarter, but the company still delivered financial results that exceeded analyst projections while the trendsetting company continued to ...

Australia's state of Victoria has passed the country's first treaty with Indigenous peoples, a landmark act of recognition long denied to the nation's first inhabitants. Cheers and applause rang ...

Satoshi Okuhara, one of the chief curators at the Railway Museum in Saitama. The JR Yamanote line, which circles central Tokyo, will mark the 100th anniversary of the start of its operations as a ...